COMMUNITY
Typing services offer
key help for student papers
Different philosophies on editing
characterize campus businesses
By Miriam Winston
I morale! Contributor
At 2 a in. you begin to realize
the futility of your index-finger
typing method
At :t you run out of liquid pa
per and the question mark on
your manual typewriter is
stuck.
Could you have avoided this
anguish? Would vour professor
apprei into a neater paper '
Who you gonna call?
When your word processing
needs exceed your typing ebili
ties, your computer expertise or
vour available time, you have
options
Penny and Ken Allmel of Tv
pos want to help
Typos., titiS T 1 Ith Ave , ad
M illses “quiiilv word profess
ing" and "complete hard -
vvare/soflware support
()r you could turn to Cindy
Kouttu or Carolyn Sherrell, or a
host of other services
Typos is Creek lor "to t route
an image " The Typos laser
printers and resume services of
fer professional help to slu
dents and business people
alike, I'eniu Allmel said
'The cost to students is $2
a double spai ed page
Or, for $<> an hour, students
can do tin dr own work in
WordPerfect r> 1 or WordStar
on IBM-compatible computers
named Llvis and Jerry Lire, and
receive lots ol help and udv i( e
Advice about running the
computers, that is,
"It's your grade, not mine,"
is Penny Allmet's firm answer
to students who want editing
serve es on papers she process
es
"I type last," Allmet said,
"and it slows me down to read
a paper "
Allmet said she can often get
the paper hack to the student
the same day
"We get students in a jam,
and I want to help," she said,
"so I’ve had turnarounds ul one
day on fit) page papers
This set vie e creates loy a I
i .. .turners like Mary Webb, a
University junior who ire
(juents Typos She vsas first
laced with a 22-page paper,"
she said, "and I just can’t
type "
"I do my own rough drafts,"
said Don Mihaloew, a rei ent
graduate, "but I'm a hunt-and
peck typist."
Mihaloew took his disserta
tion to Typos m June, and "Ken
and Penny just went the extra
mile for me," he said
Penny Allmet, co-ownor ol Typos, works on processing a paper.
She concentrates on speed and leaves the editing to the student.
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Darren Cervantes, Kioto's
desktop publishing coord inn
tor, said he would like to si
more support services ofieret
to students who use the Si! an
hour computers
"We do not tutor right now,
tie said, "but I'd like to ge
computer tutoring classes go
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Ono hour on th<? Macintosh
is "long enough for most peo
ple to get the hang of the soft
ware," he said.
A lot of students come in to
create, he said, hut more come
in with their work already
done, so customers spend anv
where from five minutes to six
hours on the computers
('indy Kouttu of WordStyles
and TypoScripts, 48-1-5454,
said she believes in sitting
down with students to go over
papers that have consistent er
rors.
"There arc certain courses
we’re not'allowed to edit for,"
she said In others, "professors
even call or send students in"
for the extra help they need on
a paper, she said.
The issue of editing and tu
toring is a somewhat gray area
in word processing services,
said Elaine Green of the office
of the l Jean of Students
"If someone asks for help,
pointing out problems is OK,"
she said, "but editor correcting
is not OK.”
Kouttu finds this argument
unfair.
“The University is not truly
cognizant of what is out there"
in terms of spell-check and
grammar check programs, she
said.
"There is a difference in the:
final grades of students who
have money,” Kouttu said, be
cause they can afford the pro
grams that do what she is not
allowed to do.
Green said word-processing
services charge: money, too, and
added she does not believe
many students have sophist!
rated grammar-check programs
"With spoil-checker or gram
mar-checker," Green said, "stu
dents still have: to correct their
own mistakes" after the eompu
ter points them out
Kouttu said she has talked
with several professors who
agree with her that the guide
lines in the Student Gondurt
Gode are “vague and unfair."
The; current interpretation ol
the code says plagiarism and
academic dishonesty guidelines
prohibit outright editing In
word processing services.
In addition, it says tii.it no
one may udil or contribute to
the meaning of another's work
knowing that it is for academic
credit.
In Routtu’s mind, that puts
tlie hall in the student's court
"Sometimes," she said, "cus
turners won't tell us" whether
it's a journal article or an ling
hsh paper.
Routtu and typist Carolyn
Sberrell both charge SI5 an
hour, and they advertise toge
ther as "Word Specialists,” hut
the similarities stop there.
Carolyn’s Specialties,
4B4-4177, has been in business
for 23 years, and Sherrell has
never edited student papers for
grammar or content.
"1 believe students learn
through correcting their own
errors," she said, "because that
is part of the process.”